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[Bill Vance]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Felix Miata wrote:

> Bill Vance composed on 2014-11-11 01:26 (UTC-0800):
>
>> While there were a lot of lines in the log file, not a single
>> one had, "dpi", in it.  If you want, I can send you the output.
>
> Did you grep for it, or just eye scan? It should have appeared at least once
> if not more. For some drivers it's in CAPS.


Did both, _and_ eyeballed it.


> Sharing would likely bear fruit only if you plan to try 14.04 again.
>
>> I don't understand a fraction of what you mentioned above, but
>> one thing kinda puts the kibosh on some of it, is that this is
>> about the video, while this, and everything else in 14.04 system
>> settings doesn't work.  __EVERYTHING__
>
> What may have happened with 14.04 was some kind of defect in packages
> installation WRT the X server and/or KDE to keep the correct driver from
> functioning properly and/or system settings not fully functional. Updates
> might have fixed it, or another installation might have avoided what
> happened. Still, due to its age, that hardware combination probably hasn't
> gotten much testing as new releases have evolved.
>
>> Looks like it's new motherboard time.  **Again**
>
> What do you mean by "again"? The one you have was probably made 12 or more
> years ago. Regardless of age, its onboard S3 video is reason enough to switch
> to something better. Anything newer and from Intel, AMD or NVidia should be
> several orders of magnitude better.


This machine is old enough to have started out with a Pentium 3, and
has been through a few incarnations since, usually to solve this,
that, or the other nasty, insolvable problem.

As per Finagle's comentary on Murphy's Law, "Murphy is an optimist!".

Bill